Meat hall

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Meat hall
Meat hall on the Limmat 1883

Meat hall on the Limmat 1883

Data
place Zurich
architect Ludwig Hanhart (1824–1905)
Construction year 1864-1866
demolition 1962
Coordinates 683 382  /  247419 coordinates: 47 ° 22 '20.4 "  N , 8 ° 32' 33.5"  O ; CH1903:  six hundred and eighty-three thousand three hundred and eighty-two  /  247419

The meat hall was a butcher's market in Zurich . It was opened on April 10, 1866 and demolished in 1962. It was popularly called the Veal Knuckle Mosque .

history

Town hall bridge and meat hall in 1880, on the right the police headquarters at the time

Between 1855 and 1859, the continuous Limmatquai was built between today's Bellevue and the Central . This developed into the new main traffic artery, on which the meat hall was built from 1864 to 1866 according to plans by the city architect Ludwig Hanhart in the Byzantine style instead of the old slaughterhouse .

For hygienic reasons, private butchers were not allowed to offer meat products. In the year it opened, this ban was lifted and meat sales were liberalized. Many butchers now opened their own shops, and soon the meat hall was much too big. While there were around 40 stalls at the beginning, there were 19 in 1900 and 6 in 1950.

In 1962 the “Veal Knuckle Mosque” was torn down despite violent protests by architects and artists. Ironically, the foundation stone for the Mahmud Mosque on Forchstrasse was laid in Zurich this year .

Remodeling plans

As a result, various redesign plans were developed. These were more or less popular, and so a large part of the former meat hall became a free space. Today the Café Rathaus is located there. On the platform to the north of it was the port crane of the art intervention Zurich Transit Maritim in 2014/2015 .

Remains of the building

Entrance portal of the Seldwyla settlement in Zumikon

A column portal was used as the main entrance to the Seldwyla settlement in Zumikon .

literature

  • S. Zurlinden: Hundred Years: Pictures from the History of the City of Zurich from 1814–1914. Book printing house, Zurich, 1915, Volume 2, p. 120, ( Google books ).
  • Kurt Guggenheim: The meat hall in the twilight of parting. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . March 14, 1953 ( static.nzz.ch PDF).
  • Anja Grünenfelder: The Veal Knuckle Mosque. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. October 8, 2012 ( nzz.ch ).

Web links

Commons : Meat Hall  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cornelia Bauer et al. : Inventaire suisse d'architecture: 1850-1920 , Gesellschaft für Schweizerische Kunstgeschichte (Ed.), 1992, p. 442, ( Google Books ).
  2. ^ Antiquarian Society in Zurich (ed.): Communications from the Antiquarian Society in Zurich. 79, 2012, p. 18 ( Google books ).
  3. ↑ Jürg Fierz (Ed.): Zurich - Who else is there? Orell Füssli Verlag, Zurich 1972, p. 77.
  4. ↑ Denise Marquard: The Veal Knuckle Mosque. In: Tages-Anzeiger . August 13, 2010, accessed April 19, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Manuel Pauli: Development meat hall area, Zurich. In: Building + Living. 33, No. 9, 1979, pp. 324-325, doi: 10.5169 / seals-336344 .
  6. ↑ Redesign of the meat hall into a Limmat gallery? In: Building, Living, Living. 37, 1959, pp. 9-10, doi: 10.5169 / seals-651220 .
  7. ↑ New construction of the Rathausbrücke and multi-purpose building on the old meat hall area in Zurich: Architect Manuel Pauli; Engineer: Edi Toscano. In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung. 89, No. 25, 1971, S 645-647, doi: 10.5169 / seals-84904 .
  8. ↑ Stefan Hotz: The Seldwyla settlement in the canton of Zurich was rejected by architects. The residents love them anyway. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. November 13, 2018 ( nzz.ch )